Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied thousands of high achievers in various fields and came up with his…
“Desire is the root of all unhappiness. Remove desire and you remove all unhappiness from your life.”
Its common belief that to achieve something substantial in life you must give up a lot of your current happiness.
Popular culture feeds into us the idea of happiness as an endless pursuit of pleasure.
It teaches us the eternal desire for faster cars and bigger houses. It puts the onus of happiness on shallow consumption of material possessions.